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The Brewers Head Into Coors In DraftKings and FanDuel MLB Picks for Tuesday 9/6/22
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Pitchers
José Quintana FD 8200 DK 7500
Opponent - WSH (Paolo Espino) Park - WSH
FD - 38.42 DK - 19.78
With a game in Coors, it’s always great to find cheaper pitching options in good spots so we can load up on bats. Quintana is one of those dudes. He comes in as the biggest money line favorite on the day at -260 facing off against the Washington Nationals at home. It’s a great spot against a team all the way in the tank after trading Juan Soto. Quintana isn’t a strikeout ace, but his peripherals are fine enough and this matchup and win expectation play at these price points on both sites.
Kyle Wright FD 10600 DK 9700
Opponent - OAK (Cole Irvin) Park - OAK
FD - 43.13 DK - 23.24
If you want to spend up a little more for a slightly better pitcher then Kyle Wright could be the play. He opens as a -227 road favorite against the lowly Oakland A’s who rank second-to-last in team wOBA this season and strikeout 23% of the time. Wright has gone six or more innings in nine straight games and pitched seven innings in five of the last ten. He’s striking out just under a batter an inning on the season and induces a ton of grounders with a 54% GB rate on the season.
Shane Bieber (FD $10800 DK $10600), Logan Gilbert (FD $9500 DK $8500), and Joe Musgrove (FD $10400 DK $9500) are all also fine options on this slate. They are just going to cost you more.
Catcher/First Base
Rowdy Tellez FD 3100 DK 4200
Opponent - COL (Chad Kuhl) Park - COL
FD - 14.52 DK - 10.97
The Brewers’ 6.6 implied runs are easily the highest on the slate and are more than a run higher than the next-closest team. We are going to want as much exposure to them as possible here. Tellez is something of a no-brainer on both sites at these prices seeing as how he’s slated to hit third in the lineup against the righty Chad Kuhl. Tellez has 28 home runs on the season (easily a career best) with a .795 OPS. He’s just too cheap and coming in too good of a spot to fade here.
I prefer Tellez to all other options, but if you want to go in a different direction on FanDuel, I don’t mind Adley Rutschman (FD $2800 DK $5600) here. He’s coming at sub-$3K and is still a bargain.
On DraftKings, his teammate Ryan Mountcastle (FD $2600 DK $3900) is coming just a bit too cheap.
Second Base
Kolten Wong FD 3500 DK 3700
Opponent - COL (Chad Kuhl) Park - COL
FD - 11.98 DK - 9.22
Wong is slated to hit fifth for the Brewers and is coming at value prices on both sites, but especially on DraftKings. He doesn’t have tremendous power, but there is a little pop in the bat with 11 home runs on the season. Plus, he’s added 14 stolen bases. He’s tough to strikeout at just 17.5% and puts the ball in play right around 75% of the time on the season. That’s a solid profile for a guy about to face a low-K arm in Coors.
Luis Rengifo FD 2400 DK 3900
Opponent - DET (Eduardo Rodriguez) Park - DET
FD - 10.83 DK - 8.34
Rengifo has been hitting cleanup in the Angels order which really says more about them as a team than it does about him as a hitter. Regardless, he’s getting the opportunity and the price, especially on FanDuel, is still just coming a bit too cheap. Getting to hit behind Trout and Ohtani is a plus on its own and Rengifo makes a lot of contact, putting the ball in play more than 80% of the time this season. He also has 11 home runs too, adding a little power. As a switch hitter he’s been slightly better against lefties for his career as well.
Shortstop
Willy Adames FD 3800 DK 5500
Opponent - COL (Chad Kuhl) Park - COL
FD - 15.5 DK - 11.74
Adames should be hitting second in the lineup for the Brewers here on Tuesday and looks like the easy play at shortstop on this slate. Sure, he’s expensive on both sites (especially FanDuel), but do you want to fade him considering the Brewers have an overwhelmingly high implied run line and a great matchup against a weak arm in Coors? Me neither. Kuhl has a 5.19 ERA on the season and strikes out fewer than seven batters per nine. Meanwhile, Adames’s biggest issues is the strikeout but that’s much less of a concern here. He has 26 home runs on the season with a .448 slugging percentage. And for his career he’s actually a reverse platoon splits guy and is much better against righty arms. So it’s really all lining up here. It’s Adames or bust for me at shortstop on this slate.
Third Base
José Ramírez FD 3800 DK 5900
Opponent - KC (Kris Bubic) Park - KC
FD - 13.48 DK - 10.19
If you opt to go with an arm like Quintana on this slate then you will have a lot of room to roster bats. Ramirez is one of those you should think about paying all the way up for here. He’s facing off against Kris Bubic who brings in a 5.47 ERA and 17.6% K rate. And J-Ram is one of the best hitters in baseball, with an .885 OPS, 26 home runs, 14 stolen bases, and walking (9.5%) almost as much as he strikes out (11.1%). As a switch-hitter he’s platoon neutral in that he just rakes against both righties and lefties.
Ryan McMahon FD 2900 DK 4800
Opponent - MIL (Brandon Woodruff) Park - MIL
FD - 11.17 DK - 8.45
The Rockies aren’t in the same spot as the Brewers in that they have a much tougher matchup in Woodruff, but they still get to hit in Coors and that’s worth something. They have a 4.7 implied run line which is still the fourth-highest of the slate overall. McMahon is a decent, not great, hitter who has taken over the leadoff slot for Colorado. That almost alone makes him worth a look on FanDuel where he’s coming at sub-$3K.
Outfield
Christian Yelich FD 3600 DK 4400
Opponent - COL (Chad Kuhl) Park - COL
FD - 16.06 DK - 12.14
Andrew McCutchen FD 2900 DK 4000
Opponent - COL (Chad Kuhl) Park - COL
FD - 14.1 DK - 10.57
Hunter Renfroe FD 4200 DK 4500
Opponent - COL (Chad Kuhl) Park - COL
FD - 14.61 DK - 10.97
Yelich was dealing with some injury stuff but is back in the lineup now and set to hit leadoff for the Brewers in this matchup in Coors. He hasn’t returned to his MVP levels of a few years ago, but neither have the prices. The OPS is in the mid-700s and he still gets on base around 36% of the time, but the power has dipped. That being said, he’s still a bargain because of the hitting situation here and I think he’s pretty much a lock on both sites at these price points. I suspect he’s one of the more popular plays on the slate.
Meanwhile, you won’t be able to play all of the Brewers, but Renfroe and McCutchen are worth looks here seeing as how they are set to hit cleanup and sixth the lineup respectively. Renfroe is an excellent DraftKings value at just $4500 and McCutchen is coming too cheap on FanDuel.
Mike Trout FD 4100 DK 5600
Opponent - DET (Eduardo Rodriguez) Park - DET
FD - 14.37 DK - 10.63
We would almost never have Mike Trout bringing up the bottom of a cash game article, but he’s not exactly cheap and the game in Coors could win the day here. That being said, he still makes for a great play with the Angels at 4.6 implied runs and Trout being one of the best to ever do it. He’s having another world-beating season with a .968 OPS and 30 home runs. Again, this is Trout we are talking about who needs almost no introduction, but he might not fit into all lineups depending on where you go with pitching.
